The Politics of Identity – Liberal Political Theory and the Dilemmas of Differe…

The Politics of IdentityLiberal Political Theory and the Dilemmas of Difference\nAuthor(s): Michael Kenny\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Polity Press\nISBN-13: 9780745619057, 978-0745619057\nSynopsis\nThis book provides a comprehensive and critical assessment of the ways in which Anglo-American political theorists have responded to the emergence of a politics of identity in democratic society. It examines the merits and weaknesses of the ideas associated with the major schools and thinkers in contemporary philosophical liberalism. It also provides a critical exploration of the arguments of their pluralist rivals, including advocates of multiculturalism, difference and recognition. \n \n\n Kenny illustrates how debates over such concepts as identity, difference, recognition and culture are intertwined with political theorists characterizations of democracy, citizenship and civil society. In an analysis that juxtaposes normative politic.